Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) has been declared closed for an indefinite period by the university administration.
At the same time, all residential students have been instructed to vacate their halls by 9:00am on Monday (1 September).
The decision was confirmed at 10:45pm on Sunday by Professor Dr Md Asaduzzaman Sarkar, general secretary of the BAU Teachers’ Association.
According to university sources, the closure was announced following an online emergency syndicate meeting held at 9:30pm on Sunday night.
Earlier in the day at 11:00am, the Academic Council convened to address the ongoing crisis.
The university administration said that students residing in residential halls must leave by Monday morning in compliance with the decision.
The unrest stems from a dispute over the implementation of a “combined degree” program.
On Sunday, students of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, dissatisfied with the outcome of the Academic Council meeting, locked up the vice-chancellor and 227 teachers inside the university’s Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Auditorium.
The students’ key demand is – “One profession, one degree — no combined degree.”
They began gathering around the auditorium at 9:00am, and when the council’s decision failed to meet their expectations by around 1:30pm, they confined all attending teachers inside and padlocked the venue.
The emergency syndicate meeting later in the evening decided to shut down the university indefinitely to restore order.
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